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Heathy Practice – Achieving your Goals for a Healthy Creative Career
Working in the performing arts is physically and psychologically demanding. There is a high risk of encountering health problems but proven techniques and strategies can help you keep well and achieve your creative goals. BAPAM...
Call for Research Participants: Career-Changing Injury and Illness in Elite Professional Dancers
Painsong: A narrative study of career-changing injury and illness in elite professional dancers, with implications for clinicians Researcher, Jeremy Leslie-Spinks, is looking for former professional dancers whose careers were...
Research: Healthcare for Injured Pianists
Healthcare for Injured Pianists - Invitation to a research project David Harvey is researching pianists’ views and experiences of access to healthcare for injuries that limit playing. David is a professional pianist and final year trainee Osteopath at the University...
Specialist Voice Assessment for patients in Northern Ireland
Are you a professional singer or voice user in Northern Ireland with a voice problem requiring a specialist clinical assessment? BAPAM, the medical charity that provides specialist medical assessments and advice to professional and student performing artists,...
Sustainable Creative Careers: Your Own Best Health – Evelyn Glennie
Picture: Evelyn Glennie by Jim Callaghan For the first in a new series of articles on maintaining our own best health, solo percussionist (and BAPAM patron) Dame Evelyn Glennie spoke with us about looking after mind and body while managing the pressures of global...
Guest Blog: What I Would Tell My 25-Year Old Self
Our guest blog is from yoga teacher and flautist Veronika Klirova who joins our Community Drop In on 1 February teaching Musicians’ Yoga to Manage Anxiety. Nearly eight years ago, I started a new job at one of the symphony...
Research: Playing Related Pain, Exercise and Mood
Are you currently a conservatoire student in the U.K. or Ireland? Have you experienced playing-related pain? Claire Austen, a Msc in Psychology student at the University of East London, is investigating the effects of a musician-specific exercise programme on...
Research: Self-reported Voice Problems and Coping Strategies in Western Classical and Carnatic singers
Aparna Ramachandran is a PhD researcher at City, University of London, a trained Indian Classical singer, and a Speech and Language Therapist specialised in singers' voices. She is conducting research into "Self-reported voice problems and coping strategies in Western...
Performance Science Research Post at Schulich School of Music, Montreal
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor of Applied Performance Science Research at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Applications are to be reviewed in early December 2021. Information for...
Guest Blog: Things Musicians Don’t Talk About – Musicians Injury Awareness Week
With their first Musicians' Injury Awareness Week taking place 15 – 21 November, classical music podcast Things Musicians Don't Talk About focus on musicians' stories of how health challenges affect their lives within our arts...
Call for papers: MHPC22, Oslo, September 2022
Submissions on musicians’ and performing artists' health and performance are invited to the conference, Musicians' and Performing Artists' health and performance Integrating body and mind (MHPC22), in Oslo 22–24 September 2022....
New Hearing Health Infographic
Produced with Dr Finola Ryan (Specialist Registrar in Occupational Medicine and UCL Performing Arts Medicine MSc graduate), our new infographic looks into three levels of hearing-related health, providing guidance on how to prevent hearing problems, as well as what...
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